Things that make yo go Hmmm....

So I haven't written in my blog for a few days and what a wild ride that has been let me tell you....

Ok, nothing significant that I cna tell you about except for things that occurred in my heart recently that I cannot divulge.

Still I feel it necessary to share.

What I am thankful for....

It's been an interresting past few months. In particular these last few days.

I again cannot get into those details. Here is what I will say:

I'm thankful that at times it's hard to be thankful. I'm grateful when times are tough. i'm grateful for the example so many strong and wonderful people leave in their wake throughout my life.

I am grateful for sorrow and pain because it helps us reach out and find healing and then those that need to be healed.

I'm grateful for song, both of the voice and of the heart. How wonderful it is to express gratitude to God every single day in solitude and prayer and leave this world behind for just one moment and talk with my dad.

Things I have learned:

How wonderful it is to learn about love! Of all of the things one can learn this is the greatest one of all.

I've learned so much and recently about God's love and how it relates to agency.

how important it is that we emulate this pattern.

I've discovered that pretty much my whole life I've been exposed to "false love" as I like to call it:

Force, coerision, bribery, threats, preaching, commmanding, criticism and overcared for.

Real love is different. It doesn't impose or force or coerce. It invites, offers and respects. Loves depsite all conditions.

Instead of offering advice, real love listens, values the person and their feelings and simply invites them to exercise their own free agency.

God never "lectures" or "belittle" or "guilts" us into anything. That's man's imposition.

God listens. Loves you, believes and supports you. If there is something He doesn't agree with, he doesn't accuse you or make you change or throw on the guilt trips. He mention the consequences and invites us to think about them for ourselves and always shares how he feels about the behoviours but never on our value.

How perfect is that!

If only I could be as perfect in my love as this at all times.

It hurts to love sometimes because sometimes someone won't allow you to show them your love. Siblings, frineds, even coworkers or spousese. That's perfectly natural and ok! People tend ot panic but that's fear not love. Trust, respect and love. In that case, we wait patiently and wait for opportunities when we can offer love and service. They may still refuse. That is ok, because we are not alone. We don't have to do it all ourselves. God can and does intervene on our behalf to help souls heal, hearts to be softened and minds to be opened.

It is hard at times, but unconditional and pure love and respect are teh only way in which we cna truly help and love another. Even if our point is correct, it's not our business to impose what that person needs to seek or imporve or forgive.

Love does not confine. It nourishes the way a gentle flower is nourished.

Little at a time and we nourish this budding flower according to what the flower needs and tells us, we regularly reach out and extend our love and not according to what we want or think it needs. You can't force a flower to grow. Too much water or sunlight could kill it. The flower is always given love and consideration and attention, sometimes in different ways and at different times but it is always given and not for our purposese but in the joy of seeing it grow and awakening our hearts as we see it grow. The flower then takes that love and according to it's abilities, choices, it chooses to grow. It is at a pace and willingness that they are ready to receive it. It's not about them loving you back. If they choose to do so, how wonderful but real love...that is a different story all together.

Ours is not to make a flower grow. It cannot be forced but we can do things that constantly nourish, bless and assist the flower as strives to come into full bloom. Ours is to love the flower and remind that flower how beautiful and gorgeous, warm, inspiring, soft, kind, and loving and so much more than it is and not just in thought and word but in action and behave. To remind that flower of who she can be and that no matter what or how or where she chooses to be, you will always love her with all of your heart.

Share your love!

Tell them! Show them! Be love! Love that is insincere is only self seeking.

(sans cere; without wax; relates to marble sculptures and how pure, strong and without flaw a sculpture was because it didn't have wax on it. Wax was used in those times to hide flaws; to be sincere is to be without guile and 100% honest and mean what we say and do from the deepst parts of our souls)

Insincerity is about appearances but not about what is truly in the heart and mind of that person. It is to appear loving.

In fact repentance is such a powerful gift because it teaches us what sincere love is and how to truly be sincere again for the first time. I believe one who lack the personal heart felt wisdom of God's love through the Atonement or in general doesn't recognize God's love in their life and in their heart, is truly incapable of true sincerity at the deepest levels. It's something I've noticed in my life and sad to say something I continually strive to repent of.

Oh that every word, thought and deed we had were truly and deeply sincere.

Sincere and selflessness are one fo the only pathways to true and lasting and deep abiding love. This is the love that heals. This is the love that changes people and changes lives. This is the love that opens our eyes to see and hear and feel anew what we once thought was real. This is the love the changes all things because we are changed.

I challenge you to truly seek and find this true and real love in everything you do.


Love...

Just love.


Another thing I've learned is a about absolute assurance and true faith.

I'll get into that another day though.

I hope you enjoyed another one of my posts. Feel free to share and comment about my blog. I'm pretty open so let er rip.

Thanks for all of the comments so far. Means a lot to me.

Wish you the best!

There is no perons or power that can resist true unconditional love.